Great post about using reference and how to alter the timing and staging. There are great photos and the information is very interesting (as with everything on Mr. Deja's blog). So head over there to check it out! => Realism and Abstraction

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

It's still very close to the Academy of Art (since most of the animators attending are AAU students, it was important to me to minimize travel time for them).

I'm signing up with Opinno and they offer great conference rooms and one very big event space, where the majority of the sessions will be held. Seating arrangement can be reshuffled to make it super comfy!!

Anyway, besides lots of awesome baby duties, I've been busy working on the next installment of Star Trek, hence a bit of a slower pace in terms of postings. As with everything concerning work, I'm not allowed to say anything but I am excited about the movie and I can't wait to hear the final score and sound design!

iAnimate is pumping out really awesome rigs for their online school! It's a great feature of theirs and having new and original rigs will help your reel stand out.
Maybe it's time to bring back Generi and Package Man, it's been a while! Generi had great facial features at the time!

I like how even the handheld camera feel of the movie is being replicated here. Too bad about the Mario cameo. I guess it's in line with the Dreamworks pop culture references and the kids do come out of the pipes, but still, it would have been nicely contained within the Hunger Games world without it. Rant Monday I guess.
But what's better here than in the movie is her use of the bow as a final measure. After all the fuss that's being made in the movie about her being such a good shot, she barely uses it in the movie. Wasted opportunity! Same goes for "Brave". It's all about her bow and arrow, but it's barely being used in the movie. RANT MONDAY!!
Anyway. According to Cartoon Brew:

Dreamworks animator David Stodolny has been working for the past 3 months in evenings and on weekends on this hand-drawn parody of The Hunger Games.